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For everyone interested in the future of imaging technology, this is a “must view” video, featuring Michael Cioni, CEO and founder of Light Iron, speaking here at the LA Final Cut Users Group. Light Iron is a Hollywood-based post-production facility known for finishing and mastering films such as The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Muppets, and other recent blockbusters. Cioni is a pioneer in Hollywood’s transition from a film-based economy to a digital media economy. In his presentation, he makes four provocative predictions about our 4K future.
After 120 years of entertaining audiences, countless movies and pioneering works on the format, celluloid 35mm film looks to be on the way out as the industry picks up the pace to adopt digital for major motion picture capturing, post and distribution.
FinalPost, a new 5K digital post facility, is proud to announce the addition of LIGHT IRON OUTPOST to its file-based post production arsenal.
Hollywood post house Light Iron put its two Quantel Pablo color correction systems to the ultimate test in carrying out the 4K DI for David Fincher's 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. 'Dragon Tattoo' is among the largest 4K movies ever delivered: at 2 hours and 38 minutes, the final DI consists of almost 250,000 frames of 45 megabytes each. Light Iron's Pablos proved more than equal to the task, helping to produce an 'elegantly cinematic'* result.
Re-teaming with director David Fincher after their successful collaboration on The Social Network, Michael Cioni and the team at Light Iron built 5K workflows for real time, full resolution post for Fincher's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The running time of the 4K print is 2:38, creating a data size larger than six 2K features combined. Cioni and Light Iron co-founder Ian Vertovec spoke to Creative COW's Debra Kaufman about how working that way in real time is even possible, working with David Fincher, and what frame sizes larger than 4K mean for all of us.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the tenth film this year to be released in 4K, a new ultra high resolution digital film format that Sony hopes will become the industry standard. Watch the Reuters video report.
